'Mainstreaming Peace Education' aims to develop a coherent transnational approach to peace education as an element in life-long learning. The Manual focuses on presenting the overall framework for peace education, sets out a strategic approach to mainstreaming peace education and provides examples of projects and initiatives implemented by European civil society organisations.

Forty-one children were released on 27 and 28 May in the Central African Republic capital Bangui following a series of meetings between UNICEF and the Head of Transition Michel Djotodia. The children are between the ages of 14 and 17, among which seven are girls. “The release of these children is the just the first step. We are committed to ...

UNICEF report indicates vast majority of Gaza’s children are struggling to cope with war trauma and PTSD. This is the first of a two part series on the psychological toll the war and siege has taken on Gaza’s most vulnerable population. TRNN explores the Oum el Qurra school in the Tar el Hawa neighborhood in Gaza city where many of ...

NEW YORK, USA, 22 February 2012 – Seventeen-year-old Michaela ‘Chaeli’ Mycroft was recently awarded the International Children’s Peace Prize for her work promoting the rights of children with disabilities in South Africa. The International Children’s Peace Prize is awarded annually to a child whose efforts have successfully addressed problems faced by children around the world. In 2004, 9-year-old Chaeli did ...

Yemen, 2010: An 8-year-old Nigerian boy stands with other prisoners, in the port city of Hodeidah. He was arrested for illegal entry into Yemen. After three months, UNICEF and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees advocated his release, and he has since returned to Nigeria. On 10 December, Human Rights Day commemorated the sixty-third anniversary of the adoption of the ...

In 1976, Mairead Maguire was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her extraordinary actions to end violence in Northern Ireland, her native country. AUDIO: Listen now Since then, Ms. Maguire has dedicated her life to promoting peace, justice and equality around the world. She recently spoke with UNICEF Radio moderator Amy Costello about the situation of children in conflict zones ...

Yemen is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as an explosion of violence strains a country that is already one of the poorest in the world, Yemen representative for the U.N. children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. People in the capital Sanaa are very scared and the country is in desperate need of water and fuel, Geert Cappelaere said. Read more here: ...